The filmmaker said he “didn’t want to just tick any boxes” when inviting cast members from the original movie back for the sequel.
“I think the thing was for me I didn’t want to just tick any boxes,” Burton told People of nixing their characters from the sequel. “So even though they were such an amazing, integral part of the first one, I was focusing on something else.” In the first movie, Baldwin and Davis play Adam and Barbara Maitland, a newly deceased couple whose spirits are confined to their former Connecticut home.
According to Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson, in the new film, Lydia’s teenage daughter Astrid, as played by Ortega, asks her mother what happened to the ghosts she knew as a teenager—the ones played by Baldwin and Davis. Lydia explains that “they found a loophole and moved on to the next plane,” writes Lawson. “A sequel like this, it really had to do with the time,” Burton continued. “That was my hook into it, the three generations of mother, daughter, granddaughter. And that be the nucleus of it.
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